WHAT I LIKE ABOUT POST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION, AND WHAT I DON’T. What I like (love!) about post-apocalyptic fiction: When I was fourteen I read Gone with the Wind. I LOVED it, and I couldn’t bear it that Scarlett and Rhett didn’t get together in the end. But that’s another topic. One …

Goatless Soap This is just a quick update. A major character in my current work-in-progress (which I’ll be publishing as H.O. Knight) makes all her own soap. It’s a craft that was passed down to her from her mother, who learned from her mother, who learned from her mother … you get …

Doomsday Shopping If the President were to go on TV and tell the world a 5-mile-wide asteroid was headed for our planet, the following ten items are the first things I’d shove in my cart at the Giant Eagle grocery store… Cheese: Did you know that some cheeses stored in …

On Goats…And Soap I am an arts-n-crafts Fair Junkie. You tell me there’s a good fair anywhere within a fifty-mile radius and I’m there. Why? Because amongst the pieces of wood with cows and puppies painted on them, the dried flowers woven into princess crowns, and the inevitable Ye Old …

Apocalyptic Fiction vs. Post-Apocalyptic … vs. Dystopian What I write: Apocalyptic fiction OH! I love dystopian stories. I don’t write Dystopian stories. I don’t understand. They’re the same thing, right? No. Apocalyptic fiction is in no way the same as, or even similar to, Dystopian. <sigh> I don’t get …

My Dad Was Not a Prepper My dad was a peace-loving man with a great love of the outdoors. Back in 1962 my parents bought a two-acre plot off the Loves, a family who owned a sizeable farm in Pennsylvania. The Loves had lived there for practically forever and this particular plot …